Humans still have a 100 percent death rate. But dedication to the mind-body connection helps us enjoy the life we do live.

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a disappointment in the ...

After a 15-month investigation into the dealing of human body parts, Kymberlee Schopper ... She was charged with the purchase and sale of human organs and tissue. Charges have been filed against ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

But in early April, her body ‒ which had tolerated the kidney longer than any human had ... Looney's transplant was part of a larger effort to provide genetically engineered pig organs to ...

After last week’s essay about this disease condition, it has become necessary to help readers understand the peculiar nature of the organ.

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

Would you, female reader, donate your womb to your sister so she could have a baby? It would be quite the challenge. Grace Davidson, the 36-year-old British woman who has recently given birth to her ...

The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, carrying oxygen-rich blood from the heart to every organ and tissue ... The aorta is divided into four parts: Your aorta is located in your chest and ...

No longer considered functionless, the “rediscovered” rete ovarii may be crucial for understanding “unexplainable” infertility and ovarian disorders.

Dr. Joe Sirven explores the gift of organ donation and, separately, how living well with an autoimmune disease is possible.

Discovered in Taiwan, the jawbone is believed to have belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called ...